Despoina Mantzari, Associate Professor in Competition Law and Policy, UCL Faculty of Laws

Dr Despoina Mantzari is Associate Professor in Competition Law and Policy at University College London (UCL), Faculty of Laws. Prior to that she was a lecturer at the University of Reading and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia. She was also a visiting researcher at the UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law and a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. She holds a PhD and an LL.M from UCL and studied law at the National University of Athens. Her research cuts across competition law and public law and regulation and has been funded by the AHRC, the ESRC, and the BA/Leverhulme Trust.

"Effective judicial review is necessary to ensure the legitimacy of modern systems of administrative law enforcement. In view of the increased complexity of cases brought before them, Courts have no choice but to truly engage with economic and scientific evidence, while ensuring the expediency of proceedings. The book of Prof Mantzari, one of the rising stars in the field, is a must read for anyone interested in the role of Courts. Very well researched, inter disciplinary and comparative: in short, an outstanding piece of modern legal scholarship." - Prof Adrien de Hauteclocque, CJEU & Florence School of Regulation

"Informatively enhanced for the reader with the inclusion of Figures, Tables, Cases, Legislation, a ten page Bibliography, and a ten page Index, "Courts, Regulators, and the Scrutiny of Economic Evidence" is an especially well written, organized and presented study that is unreservedly recommended for professional, governmental, college, and university library Economics collections and supplemental curriculum studies syllabus." - Midwest Book Review

"Informatively enhanced for the reader with the inclusion of Figures, Tables, Cases, Legislation, a ten page Bibliography, and a ten page Index, Courts, Regulators, and the Scrutiny of Economic Evidence is an especially well written, organized and presented study that is unreservedly recommended for professional, governmental, college, and university library Economics collections and supplemental curriculum studies syllabus." - Economic Studies Shelf

"This work offers a new and highly effective approach to the study of regulatory practice, particularly by different institutional models, on the use and critical examination of economic evidence. In favouring the methods and practices of the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal, (the 'CAT') it makes a judgment with which it is very hard to disagree. But the book is valuable as much for the comprehensive coverage of two decades' practice as for the conclusions it reaches. The author is to be congratulated for this timely contribution to the study of regulation." - Peter Freeman CBE, KC (Hon), CAT Chairman 2013-2021

"This book sheds much needed light on how courts engage - or should engage - with economic evidence in regulatory disputes and is a must-read for anyone interested in judicial review and economic evidence in the realm of regulation and beyond. The author's analysis is theoretically solid, methodologically rich and rigorous, and exceptionally insightful and thought-provoking" - Dr Andriani Kalintiri, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London